another way to chase infinity

If you find the gatorinator post on a platform that isn't tumblr, you can cause me mental pain just by telling me! "For poor ornery people like you and like I" If you have no content on your page I will assume you are a bot (derogatory) and treat you as such.

[mlerpwonders]

[lilaccatholic]

No actually I'd be THRILLED to be the reason people didn't use ai, thanks

[dragongirlbunny]

saw a post on bluesky about reimagining The Iliad as a mecha war and that idea goes unbelievably hard. achilles in his legally distinct gundam cutting through dozens of enemy suits. aggamemnon in his gold-plated mech. paris using a long range sniper rifle to exploit a design flaw in achilles' armor. the gods are all various megacorps who have a stake in the war bc it'll impact their profits.

[marithlizard]

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

[mlerpwonders]

Earlier today I thought for a moment about the project hail mary movie and was immediately struck by what I can only describe of a montage (with Sign of the Times backing it) of the two times I went to see it (in two different cities with two different groups).

This made me realize that I don't actually hate the movie and think it can't measure up to the book, I just can't stand tumblr fandom for a popular work.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

It's a zombie apocalypse and you are stuck in this place!

How are you doing?

great!

okay, I can make this work

Not great, probably can't make this work

A zombie

Dead (non-zombie related)

Results/it depends

Voting ended onJun 29

(zombies work by standard zombie rules, boarded doors and biting)

[seainspanish]

11 years of splatoon !! 🦑

[rohirric-hunter]

Today's rant about the exhaust port on the Death Star was inspired by a post about how Darth Vader appears to have known about it, based on some comics and some behavior in the movie. It was an interesting post which I only didn't reblog because some additions presupposed that this was the writers being stupid.

I actually think that still works with the presupposition that the exhaust port makes sense. Darth Vader, the same guy who destroyed a droid control ship in a vaguely similar way on accident and then spent several years during the Clone Wars probably pulling off similar stunts on purpose, has the experience to look for that kind of weakness. If he had access to the Death Star plans at any point, he probably found that weakness and filed it away for future use. He didn't like the Death Star, Tarkin kept rubbing it in his face that it was going to replace him and there were probably all sorts of internal politics about it.

So my thought is he saw the weakness and, when he saw the Rebellion attacking, hopped into a fighter to go out and join the fight with the intention of "accidentally" popping a couple of missiles down there himself. If he took out the last fighter and made the shot quick enough, the sensors likely wouldn't even have been able to be sure the missiles came from him and not that incredibly lucky last rebel pilot. And even if they could, who were they gonna tell in the 60 seconds or so they had left?

Rebels crushed, Death Star removed, all in one fell swoop.

Now this does have the amusing side effect of making his obsessive hunt for the pilot who destroyed the Death Star afterwards less about serving the Empire or whatever and more about taking down that upstart killstealer

[daylights-rain]

Ok maybe this is not as universal as I thought it might be...

Are you familiar with how electricity feels coursing through your flesh

Not at all

Best i got is familiarity with static shock

Yeah girl, of course everyone accidentally electrocutes themselves sometimes

Bald

Voting ended onJun 29

[daylights-rain]

Yeah a decent electric fence counts

[daylights-rain]

Yeah that would do it. Shock collar only the one time though? Are you sure? Just once?

[daylights-rain]

Yes very good that exactly is what i expect to be typical

[escuerzoresucitado]

[insert-witty-user-name-here]

[thisbibliomaniac]

[sorems-art]

Wind waker pastel oil study color

[skopostheorie]

I really do like this tweet

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Stuck in a historical war

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

How are you doing?

good somehow

I might survive

OW

dead

results/other

Voting ended onJul 5

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hey so that was a great date, yeah, but I don't think it's going to work out. Nono you didn't do anything wrong, and I have indeed had a crush on you since we started high school, it's just... well, I didn't want to bring it up at the time but we kinda got sucked into a portal fantasy midway through. We saved the kingdom over and over, relying on our knowledge of and trust in each other every time, throwing ourselves into the firing line to protect each other and using each others' conviction as a rock. We got married and lived a happy life together until the portal sucked us back mid-battle and you gave up all your memories of our journey in order to save my life right when we ended up back in the coffee shop. Yeah that was when I got a bit weird and went to the bathroom.

Anyway I thought we could push on and make the date work but I have all of these memories of secrets that this you never chose to share, decisions that this you never made, and intimacies that this you never experienced. And it's kind of screwing with the vibe yeah. Also on the date it was really, blatantly clear that you're sixteen whereas I have memories of ruling a fantasy kingdom for thirty years so like... that's a problem all on its own. Anyway this you just feels more like a daughter to me. A daughter with the woman I gave my heart and soul to over and over and received like in return, only to lose her forever on the journey home. On the plus side I can definitely help you with your math homework now.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#what the fuck#this one was actually really very short why is it still like that what

The shorter it is, the more concentrated the what the fuck can be.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I can help you with your math homework because the fantasy world's magic system was based on calculus and I was a gifted mage, stop nitpicking.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this world's magic system is also based in calculus

[immortalbeingz]

[fatfemmefreaquency]